Category: David

Grey spotted amanita mushrooms on the lawn in front of a block of flats. There was one flush of fruiting bodies at the end of June, and another at the same spot in mid-August.

Purples and greens of an artichoke flower in the dawn light.

Rainbows forming as morning sunlight comnes through the strands of a spideer’s web ona canalside umbellifer.

Small skipper butterfly resting on a thistle leaf last month.

The flowers of himalayan balsam are usually pink. More rarely they come in the yellow-orange combination (orange from a distance) of this canalside plant.

Kestrel hovering over Barley Field this morning, seconds before it swooped.

The Smestow Birders have seen a kestrel here quite often recently – hopefully a young bird establishing a territory.